Surrey's nascent Jedi community is looking for a new leader after the incumbent, Master Ajac, was forced to step down for health reasons.
The Surrey Advertiser reports that the 25 strong group is looking for someone with "a background in martial arts and a deep understanding of the teachings of the Jedi, the religion featured in …

Disturbance in the Force?

there are potential benefits

Get it recognised as an official religion, claim tax exemptions on tithes. Unfortunately the established religions guard those perks quite jealously. New anti-discrimination laws may help with that, but the membership is unfortunately too small to make if prophetable to me.

Are women allowed?

Lightsaber training

Do they use a Jedi mind trick to overcome the realisation that they're doing their "lightsaber" training with a stick? Because lightsabers don't actually exist, it turns out.

OTOH, this wouldn't be the first science fiction-based "religion" to have lasted long enough for there to be enough new recruits who weren't around when the first person MADE IT UP, that they actually believe it.

The perfect candidate.....

Religion??! <pedant>

Jedi is not a religion! Never has been. Not even in the film. "Old Ben Kenobi" may have worn a robe and followed a religion of sorts, but it certainly wasn't Jedi!

Jedi are an order of knights, much in the same vein as the Samurai (actually, movie trivia fans, Lucas' inspiration for Jedi was the Samurai). Is Samurai a religion?? No, it bloomin' isn't. The Samurai's main religions are Shintoism, Confucianism and Zen (a form of Buddhism).

So, the next time some idiot tells you that they're religion is Jedi, tell 'em their thick and to go home, flick through their mum's Freemans catalogue and stop being so fugging stupid!

Whoa . . .

Pedentry perhaps

But have you noticed that all Hollywood boyzone adventure movies have to have a religion analogue, be it Jedi or whatever that idiocy is in Avatar. Americans can't conceive of a world without one, even a make-believe world.